Crashes claim two young lives in three days

3:01 AM,
Nov. 9, 2012

Jarvis Pittman

Written by

Shereen Skola
Wausau Daily Herald

Two separate crashes in three days have claimed the lives of two young men in Marathon County, leaving families and friends in mourning over the loss.

On Sunday, 21-year-old Derek Roosa of Mosinee was killed when his car left the roadway on Sugarbush Road near the intersection of Badger Road in the town of Eaton. Then, on Tuesday, 25-year-old Jarvis Pittman of Antigo died after the car he was driving collided with a pickup driven by Michael Paul, 61, of Lakewood. The crash occurred on a snow-slick stretch of Highway 52 between Highway J and Sunrise Road in the town of Hewitt.